Temporarily halt boot process to enter encryption keys?

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Fri Dec 11 03:55:16 UTC 2009


On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:54:11 +0000, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> It's fairly trivial to write an rc.d script that pauses the boot
> process and waits for devices, but sshd runs after LOGIN, and nfs runs
> before, so you can't easily reorder then without maintaining modified
> rc.d scripts.

I think it's possible to work with the PROVIDE, REQUIRE
and BEFORE comments. But as you said, this will change
the default rc.d scripts and may cause (minor?) trouble
when upgrading the OS.



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